Why is the Hole below a Lock?
In the given picture, in how many ways can you read the word "Tiger"?
A man hijacks an aeroplane transporting both passengers(8 of them) and valuable cargo. After taking the cargo, the man demands nine parachutes, puts one of them on, and jumps, leaving the other eight behind. Why did he want eight?
You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
I am under you when I am whole.
I shift above you if you remove the first letter.
I come all around you if you remove the second as well.
Can you tell me who I am?
A train leaves from point A for point B at 80 mph. After half an hour, another train leaves from point B for point A at 60 mph.
Which of the trains will be farther from point A when they meet ?
A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river.
He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing.
If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken.
If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.
How does the man do it?
A word I know,
Six letters contain,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.
What brings you down but never up?
10 people came into a hotel with 9 rooms and each guest wanted his own room. The bellboy solved this problem.
He asked the tenth guest to wait for a little with the first guest in room number 1. So in the first room, there were two people. The bellboy took the third guest to room number 2, the fourth to number 3, ..., and the ninth guest to room number 8. Then he returned to room number 1 and took the tenth guest to room number 9, still vacant.
How can everybody have his own room?
The word ladder puzzle was invented by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.